If so, I’ve got a bridge in Brooklyn you might be interested in purchasing. To quote one of Michael Barone’s readers (via PJ Tattler), whose 35 years of IT experience provides the kind of insight required to understand the complexity of the task: The federal government is going to build 50 exchanges, using a data [...]
Included among the imperial decrees (i.e. executive orders) issued by our Dear Leader recently was one that will “clarify the Affordable Care Act” to encourage doctors to ask patients if they own guns. Paul Hsieh, in his latest column for Forbes explains why this is such a bad idea: Doctors already have a professional and [...]
A couple of days ago, I noted that the CEO of Whole Foods Market had called ObamaCare a type of fascism. My column in today’s American Spectator discusses how the thought police have cowed him into walking back that statement. This is what he originally said: Technically speaking, it’s more like fascism. Socialism is where [...]
John Mackey believes the market is the best vehicle for health care reform. And, several years ago, he equated ObamaCare with socialism: In countries like Canada and the U.K., there is no intrinsic right to health care … All countries with socialized medicine ration health care by forcing their citizens to wait in lines to [...]
Dr. Paul Hsieh gives a great lecture on the myths associated with medical licensure. One of those myths is that a medical license indicates competence. He also reminds us that Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman was very much against medical licensure and that the ill effects of that requirement will be exacerbated by ObamaCare: BTW, when [...]
Because the public, press and political establishment has been so focused on ObamaCare and the antics of HHS, not much attention has been paid to the FDA. But this is a government agency that is seriously out of control: A wide-ranging surveillance operation by the Food and Drug Administration against a group of its own [...]
The Medicare program has an unfunded liability exceeding $30 trillion (yes trillion, with a T). So, you’d think that our masters in Washington would be happy if some citizens chose to save the taxpayers money by opting out of Medicare when they reach Social Security age. Unfortunately, as Quin Hillyer reports, that’s not how the [...]
Paul Hsieh asks, in Forbes, who should control health care spending? The answer is obvious—the entity most capable of controlling costs. Who would that be? Well … er … you: What simple health care reform has reduced medical costs by up to 30%, while preserving quality of care? Hint: It’s not government price controls or [...]
Paul Hsieh advises us in his latest Pajamas Media column that government-funded medical research is just as useful as everything else our Beltway masters meddle in. Can you say “sloppy, unethical and dangerous”? Two recent articles in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times have exposed a little-known but growing problem of sloppy [...]
Reason uses Sliver Spring, Maryland as a case study in why the stimulus failed. First, the Keynesian economic theory upon which it was based is hopelessly flawed. Second, even if that were not true, the corruption of the Democrats who implement such policies is such that they never use the money the way it is meant to be used. Veronique [...]
